Complaint of an emancipated child against the separate calculation of supplementary benefits for the disabled parent

Facts

[T.], who lives with her mother, began a three-year vocational training program as a tourism specialist HF in 2009. The Office for Supplementary Benefits to the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance/Disability Insurance (AHV/IV) of the City of Zurich granted her supplementary benefits (EL) to the child's pension from the Disability Insurance starting from that month. After her father moved to Dietikon, the local office for Supplementary Benefits to the AHV/IV was responsible for the calculation of the supplementary benefits as of May 2010. The office discontinued the benefits as of July 1, 2010 and rejected the payment of benefits in a decision dated December 20, 2011. [T.] filed a complaint against this.

Considerations

The Federal Supreme Court decided that [T.], as an emancipated child entitled to a child's pension from the Disability Insurance, has a legitimate interest in challenging the separate calculation of the supplementary benefit made for her. While children cannot establish their own…